January 14th, 2020, 2:27 PM
This morning JPMorgan Chase (JPM) reported that fourth quarter earnings jumped 21% with annual earnings for 2019 rising to a record $36.4 billion. Chalk this one up to a rebound in trading revenue, especially fixed income trading where revenue came in $1 billion above analyst estimates. That good news today was balanced by negative news […]
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November 9th, 2019, 4:55 PM
Our regular (or occasional or perhaps occasionally regular) Friday series (actually running on Saturday this week) Trick or Trend looks at what might (or might not) be emerging investible trends. Exclusively on JAM. This post won't run anywhere else. Ever. Here's the context that says nothing much matters in the stock market these days except […]
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November 4th, 2019, 4:22 PM
Today, Monday November 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its first new all-time high since July. The Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ Composite also saw new highs. Stocks gave up some of their gains into the close but the Dow still finished up 0.39% for the day and the S&P 500 closed […]
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October 24th, 2019, 4:53 PM
You know what an "Amazon quarter" feels like right? Lots of revenue growth but no earnings as capital spending eats profits? Well, that's sort of what the company delivered today. But not quite. And the not quite is important. Usually an Amazon quarter is distinguished by a big jump in capital spending and operating expenses. […]
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October 23rd, 2019, 4:50 PM
Shares of Texas Instruments (TXN) closed down 7.48% today after the company reported that third-quarter earning felt $1.49 a share from $1.58 a share in the third quarter of 2018. Revenue dropped 11% year over year. On the other hand, shares of Apple continued to move higher today, closing up 1.34%. Traders and investors are […]
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October 22nd, 2019, 4:05 PM
Today the Standard & Poor's 500 matched a 12-week high and made yet another assault on a new all-time record. Better than expected earnings have been the market driver. Some 81% of the S&P 500 companies that have reported for the quarter so far have beat earnings estimates. That's near a record pace of earnings […]
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October 19th, 2019, 4:57 PM
...a "showdown" between Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) in the cloud space as the two companies report earnings only a day apart (on Wednesday October 23 for Microsoft and Thursday October 24 for Amazon.) Microsoft's cloud effort--Azure--is growing faster than Amazon Web Services. But Amazon Web Service is so much bigger--with about 3 times the […]
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October 15th, 2019, 3:36 PM
Good earnings news from big U.S. banks drove U.S. stocks higher today. As of 3 p.m. New York time, the Standard & Poor's 500 was up 1.10% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.03%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed .28% and the Russell 2000 small cap index had gained 1.17%. The iShares MSCI […]
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